Aciculiscala acuta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AciculiscalaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Aciculiscala acuta on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Aciculiscala acuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aciculiscala acuta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aciculiscala acuta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
293 taxa- Creonella subangulata7 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum7 sites
- Creonella triplicata6 sites
- Cadulus5 sites
- Cuna texana5 sites
- Cyclorisma5 sites
- Nucula cunifrons5 sites
- Nymphalucina linearia5 sites
- Striarca5 sites
- Turritella bilira5 sites
- Aenona eufaulensis4 sites
- Anomia argentaria4 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta4 sites
- Cylichna4 sites
- Cylichna incisa4 sites
- Dentalium leve4 sites
- Eulima4 sites
- Micrabacia4 sites
- Nucula amica4 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria4 sites
- Tellinimera4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Vertebrata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aciculiscala acuta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf3
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain2
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations2
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Aciculiscala acuta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aciculiscala acuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aciculiscala acuta was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAciculiscala through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sohl 1963